How Is The "WAL-MART" Made In China Polyester Filament Industry?

From the beginning of the dacron industry to the beginning, and now China has become the most important force in the global polyester and polyester industry territory. Since the founding of new China 70 years ago, China's polyester industry has been writing a magnificent development history along with the rapid development of China's chemical fiber industry. In the history of the development of China's polyester industry, the Tong Kun group, located in Tongxiang, Zhejiang, has become a unique presence in the course of the continuous development and expansion of the private chemical fiber economy.

In June this year, the China Chemical Fiber Industry Association released the ranking of China's chemical fiber industry in 2018 in Quanzhou, Fujian. The ranking is divided into chemical fiber comprehensive ranking and 15 sub product ranking. Among them, Tong Kun ranks first in the 4 ranking of chemical fiber production ranking and PET filament filament (excluding DTY), polyester POY, sliced polyester filament filament yarn, and continues to maintain the leading position in the industry.

This is just a part of Tong Kun's many honors. In fact, since its establishment, Tong Kun has maintained a steady development trend, especially from 1991 to the present, achieving "five no": no annual loss, no external guarantee loans, no sales receivables, no product backlog stocks, no cut down production; in 2011, successful market; polyester filament production capacity and output for many years ranked first in the world industry; in 2002, Tung Kun ranked the top 500 of Chinese enterprises for 17 consecutive years.

The above honor has undoubtedly added a bright note to Tong Kun's "Honor Book". In the past 38 years, it has been the honor of Bibi that has accomplished the magnificent transformation of Tung Kun, and helped to achieve its goal from small to large, from weak to strong, and become a miniature of Chinese enterprises' revitalization of China.

Wind and rain build the foundation stone

In 1981, Qingshi, late village, Yima, Yong Xiu, hemp and other communes and Tongxiang County Social team Business Bureau jointly established the first township enterprise specializing in the production of chemical fiber filament in Tongxiang, Tongxiang chemical fiber factory, which opened the way for the development of Tongxiang chemical fiber industry.

In 1983, Tongxiang chemical fiber factory was put into operation, and the efficiency was considerable. At that time, the production of polypropylene fiber was also very tight. As the first and two projects were well managed, and the chemical fiber industry was very good at that time, the company planned to build the three phase project, that is, Feng Ming chemical fiber factory.

However, for a long time, the internal management of Tongxiang chemical fiber factory is becoming increasingly chaotic, and its business is going from bad to worse. By 1990, the chaotic management led to the development of enterprises in a difficult position. It became the number one enterprise in the province's chemical fiber spinning industry. The total assets less than 5 million of the enterprises were insolvent and nearly 1 million yuan.

In contrast to the predicament of Tongxiang chemical fiber factory, the Feng Ming chemical fiber factory was developing well and prospering.

Seeing that the enterprise is difficult to continue, more than 200 workers from Tongxiang chemical fiber factory have sent a letter to the Party committee and government of Chau Quan Town, calling for the adjustment of the leading group of enterprises. Zhou Quan town Party committee and government attach great importance to this. The town leaders have repeatedly sought to be Chen Shiliang, deputy director of the Feng Ming chemical fiber factory, and asked him to be the director of Tongxiang chemical fiber factory, to shoulder the important task of revitalization of Tongxiang chemical fiber factory.

Chen Shiliang, who was 28 years old, resolutely took up the burden, made radical efforts to rectify the internal management, and actively expanded production capacity. In a month's time, he made an SKV101 polypropylene spinning machine production line with an annual output of 200 tons. In that year, he realized a profit of 1 million yuan.

Subsequently, with the change of market demand, polyester filament products foreshadowed a broad market prospect for its superior performance and use. It is imperative to readjust the product structure. Therefore, the company has established the idea of "technological transformation" to find a way out. However, according to the strength and external reputation of the enterprises at that time, it is not easy to raise funds for technological transformation. In spite of all the hard work, the four words of "borrowing the ship to sea" are just like a spark, illuminating the direction of the enterprise's progress.

As a result, the company three went to Kunshan, Jiangsu, and won support and trust with sincerity and pragmatic cooperation. First, an annual 1000 ton KP431 polyester spinning machine was bought on credit from Su San Shan group of Kunshan, Jiangsu, and then Jiangsu Changshu chemical fiber equipment factory also reached an agreement with the enterprise. The two SKV102 spinning machines with annual output of 2000 tons were manufactured in the form of trial production partners in Tongxiang chemical fiber factory.

By the beginning of 1993, the technical transformation project that needed 30 million capital and several years had been completed successfully in only one year. In order to make the enterprise remember this hard won entrepreneurial course and express gratitude for the help of Kunshan Su San Shan Group and Changshu chemical fiber equipment factory, in 1995, when the company formed the group, it was officially renamed "Tong Kun".

So far, Tong Kun has embarked on a healthy development track and has been developing step by step: in 1999, Tong Kun carried out a shareholding system transformation; in 2000, it built China's Tong Kun chemical fiber industrial city; when the financial crisis happened in 2008, Tung Kun went against the trend and invested 1 billion 200 million yuan to start the world's largest melt spinning project with single line capacity; in May 18, 2011, "Tong Kun shares" was successfully listed and launched a new blueprint for development.

Transformation and acceleration

Along the way, Tung Kun's heart has always been stronger and stronger.

In recent years, Tong Kun has accelerated its transformation on the way of development by eliminating backward production capacity, promoting cleaner production, green manufacturing and intelligent manufacturing transformation, and making steady progress in the pursuit of quality.

Standing in the outlet of intelligent manufacturing, Tong Kun is actively joining the "Internet +" and "machine substitutions" to join hands in the innovative development road. In response to the backwardness of equipment, structural overcapacity and low energy consumption, Tung Kun responded positively to the call of the government to "retreat from the three to the third" and "retreat from the low to the high", drastically eliminated backward production capacity, and launched automation equipment to respond positively to the supply side structural reform focusing on capacity, storage, deleveraging, cost reduction, and compensation board put forward by the state, so that enterprises could break through tight competition in fierce competition. At present, Tong Kun has eliminated the backward production capacity of several large and old enterprises, instead of the advanced automatic intelligent production line.

At the same time, Tong Kun continues to push forward the design concept of "integrated design, large-scale production, flexible manufacturing, intelligent control, and professional customization", and through billions of investment, the digital fiber production process technology and automated intelligent logistics system are widely used in the member enterprises of the group, and more than 8000 workers have been saved. Jiaxing polyester intelligent manufacturing project is included in the Ministry of industry's "intelligent manufacturing pilot demonstration project in 2018". Through a series of measures, Tong Kun has realized the improvement of the product quality, the improvement of the working environment, the decrease of workers' labor intensity and the increase of employees' income, so that enterprises can continue to move forward in the way of reducing staff, increasing efficiency and saving energy and reducing consumption.

It is worth mentioning that Tung Kun also attaches great importance to the parallel development of enterprises and social responsibilities. We must adhere to the road of environmental protection, continue to promote cleaner production and green manufacturing, develop circular economy, and promote the comprehensive utilization of resources, green, low-carbon and clean safety in the chemical fiber industry. At present, clean production and recycling economy have made fruitful achievements: the group has continued to increase environmental protection investment and regulation. Every year, technological transformation of existing plants and existing installations has been carried out. The effect of environmental control and energy conservation and consumption reduction is very significant. We should make full use of waste heat power generation, tail gas power generation, photovoltaic power generation and other projects to achieve the harmonious development of economic, environmental and social benefits. The new project is guided by a high starting point, high standard and high quality concept to achieve green low-carbon production. The three phase of Heng Bang project is selected as the national green manufacturing system integration project. At the same time, Tong Kun has played an important role in the joint operation of the industry, and has been building a green demonstration production line for bombs, weaving, dyeing and finishing enterprises, promoting the application of green multi-functional differential fiber and upgrading the technology level of green production in the industrial chain.

Technological innovation is gaining new life

Technology is the primary productive force. Today's society is changing rapidly, without innovation, it will be eliminated.

With the spirit of always dissatisfied with the status quo, Tong Kun has continuously developed a series of high-tech new products that will lead the market, meet the needs of people's lives and develop high-quality.

As the national development base for new synthetic fiber products and the national green manufacturing industrial base, Tong Kun has owned the national enterprise technology center, the national accreditation laboratory, the academician expert workstation, the postdoctoral workstation, the provincial enterprise research institute, the provincial skill master studio and other scientific innovation platforms, and has deeply co operated with the famous universities in China to upgrade the platform and improve the quality in the aspects of technological innovation, equipment transformation, new product development, energy saving and emission reduction, reducing the cost and increasing efficiency and personnel training.

The state-level advanced science and technology projects have hosted or participated in 3 National Science and technology support plans, completed the national Torch Plan 9, won two national science and technology progress awards, and 29 provincial and ministerial level scientific and technological progress awards. They chaired 1 projects of the Ministry of industry's green manufacturing system integration projects in 2016, and participated in 1 national key research and development projects in 2017. They chaired 1 items of intelligent manufacturing application projects in 2018, 1 items of intelligent manufacturing pilot projects; and passed the "Zhejiang manufacturing" product certification, selected the manufacturing single champion demonstration enterprises and the China Textile Engineering Society to carry out intelligent manufacturing demonstration enterprises. At present, Tong Kun has presided over a number of participation.

Scientific and technological innovation not only improves the scientific research ability of enterprises in product production and technology, but also opens up a broad road for transformation of enterprises, which enables enterprises to regenerate in the wave of supply side reform.

Today, Tong Kun has become the world's largest polyester filament manufacturer. It has five series of more than 1000 polyester filament products, and its product differentiation rate is over 60%. Almost all sizes of polyester filament can be produced from 50D to 1000D. It is known as the "WAL-MART" of China polyester filament industry.

Actively connect upstream and downstream

In recent years, it is common to go upstream.

In this regard, Tung Kun is at the forefront. It is understood that in 2012, Jiaxing's annual output of 800 thousand tons of PTA was officially entered the trial production stage, and Tung Kun took the first step towards the upstream, opened a new era of development, and once again demonstrated the ambition of Tong Kun to "build a century old enterprise".

In 2015, Tung Kun expanded again to the upstream industry chain, participating in the 40 million tons of refining and petrochemical integration project in Zhejiang and PetroChina, and in 2017, it held 20% stake in the listed sector. The project is implemented in two phases. The scale is 20 million tons / year refinery, 5 million 200 thousand ton / year aromatics, 1 million 400 thousand tons / year ethylene and downstream chemical plant, of which 20 million tons of refining and chemical plant has been put into operation since May this year.

In April 2018, Tong Kun's son, Lujiang, Anhui, embarked on a new strategic layout, planning the coal to ethylene glycol project, and stepped out of the key step towards the second core raw materials of polyester filament. Under the condition that the technology of coal making ethylene glycol has been mature, technology has lower material consumption, lower unit investment cost, higher safety, better product quality and better economy, the construction of coal glycol project is more conducive to play the vertical integration superiority of upstream and downstream industry chain, reduce the risk of raw material procurement market, optimize the layout of industrial space, enhance the development potential of enterprises, and enhance the comprehensive competitiveness.

The process of industrial chain integration is accelerating. In terms of layout of new projects, Tong Kun first started the industry to achieve PTA- integrated design of polyester filament, and realized the integrated production of raw material PX to polyester filament production, inspection, automatic drop packaging, warehousing and warehousing, effectively reducing the intermediate links, improving production efficiency and intensive land use level, reducing the staff and improving efficiency and comprehensive utilization of resources.

While strengthening and strengthening the main business of polyester filament and radiating from the center of the main industry, Tong Kun is making steady progress towards the upstream. At present, the layout of the whole industry chain has been basically formed.

March to "hundred years Tong Kun"

Where does the value of enterprise come from?

In this regard, Buffett once gave a description of a "moat", that is, in a certain field to establish a strong defensive advantage, in order to counter the opponent's attack, that is, the so-called competitive fortress.

Through its continuous exploration and practice in intelligent manufacturing, green energy saving, technological innovation and industrial chain collaboration, Tong Kun has fully built an automatic integrated automatic factory, an unmanned factory and a black light workshop, and has been actively extending to the upstream to get through the whole production chain of PX-PTA- polyester filament, thus achieving high quality.

Development.

There is no doubt that this is the "moat" built by Tung Kun and has its competitive fortress.

Tong Kun is well aware that at any time and under any background, no matter which industry it is engaged in, it will achieve good returns only by being dedicated and extreme, so as to stand out and seize the initiative in the fierce market competition. Just as HUAWEI has done its focus and perfection, it can grasp the initiative of competition in the face of the interruption of technical cooperation abroad.

The rise of great powers calls for more and more Chinese brands to become bigger and stronger. As the "WAL-MART" of China's polyester filament industry, 38 years have passed. A silk like polyester fiber runs through the development of Tong Kun, linking hundreds of millions of people's necessities. "To do the work of fiber, to benefit the nation and to count the people's livelihood", to create a hundred years of Tong Kun, has become the cry and aspiration of all the Tong Kun people.

In the future, Tung Kun will take the dream and faith of "dream catcher" to fulfill the mission and responsibility of "dream chaser", and continue to aim at the dream and goal of "all industrial chain enterprises", "advanced chemical fiber manufacturing enterprises" and "green intelligent enterprises", so as to realize the overall development of enterprises. And this "moat" will be a powerful barrier for the overall development of Tong Kun.